Speaking to Munchies, Julius Ibrahim, the owner of the café explained what had motivated them to start Second Shot.

“We wanted to change the way that people view social enterprises and homelessness,”he explains. “I hope that people will come in, have a coffee, enjoy the space, and then realise that we have this amazing social back-up.”

Second Shot pays its employees the London Living Wage and it doesn’t plan to be a long-term solution, moreover, it seeks to be a launch pad to rehabilitate people into working life.

Whilst it’s a social enterprise, Second Shot is situated in the heart of hip East London, and is furnished with distressed upcycled furniture and serves specialty coffee that comes in Aeropress, Chemex, and V60 forms.

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